A doujin parody from 1985. A canceled MSX2 game. Three minutes of animation by one of Sunrise’s best contract studios. The unusual story of a robot girl inspired by L-Gaim and Creamy Mami.
10 Years of General Products
The shop that Daicon III built spent ten years selling garage kits, posters, t-shirts, and doujinshi to the otaku generation.
The Elusive Judge Dredd Manga
Remembering when British comics collided with Japanese manga to promote an American film starring Sylvester Stallone.
Dragon’s Heaven Production Material
Production material for Dragon’s Heaven (1988) can be hard to come across, but we’ve put together a gallery of lineart and reference material used during the creation of this unusual OVA.
Kazuhisa Kondo’s Gundam: The Revival of Zeon
Yet another feature on proverbial Zimmerit favorite Kazuhisa Kondo. Translations and art from the introduction of his manga “prequel” to Char’s Counterattack, The Revival of Zeon.
Thanks for Two Years!
Zimmerit turned two this month.
The Cars of Yasuo Ōtsuka
The legendary animator that mentored Takahata and Miyazaki has another passion beyond animation: four-wheeled vehicles.
Makoto Kobayashi’s ZZ Gundam
From the pages of B-Club Magazine, a brief look at Makoto Kobayashi’s design process for the ZZ Gundam.
By His Signature You’ll Know Him: Early Illustrations by Hideaki Anno
Decades of accolades for directing genre-warping projects like Aim for the Top! Gunbuster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Shin Godzilla have obscured an important fact — Hideaki Anno really knew how to draw.
It Ain’t Over Until It’s OVA: Macross Flash Back 2012
Flashback to the thirty-year-old OVA that said goodbye to Minmay, Misa, and Hikaru.